The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-03
Local and State Notes.

The ice traffic Of the L., N A. & c. southwark
reaches two to three heavy trains per day.
The car works at Cambridge City last month
turned out 136 new box cars and fourteen Blaine
dump cars.
The L., n. A. & c. are distributing a couple
thousand tons of new steel rails the southern
portion of the main line.
A. S. Durham. purchasing agent of the L.,
N. A. 81 c., has resigned and X. w. Glading
has been appointed his successor
w. r. Woodland, general superintendent of the
L.. N. A. e. @. road, is still i'll with low
grade fever to be confined to his room
In the month of May, 2l,648, 752 pounds of
freight were handled at the city freight depot of
the Pennsylvania Company, representing ASH
loaded cars.
A. r. Zabriskie late with the New York Cen
trail road. has been appointed general freight
agent and auditor of the Fort Worth g. Rio
Grande road.
H. J. Page, general freight agent of the c.. l.,
St. l.. g. c., was in the city yesterday for a con-
ference with General Manager Noonan, of the B.
g. o. Kankakee dispatch.
Haute. has purchased the old equipment of the
Illinois Midland road, which equipment was
turned over to him on June l.
The Union Railway Company have closed
contract with Sinker, Davis e. Co. for three
boilers. seventy horse power, to be used in heat
ing the new passenger station
The Bee-line this week began receiving ], 900
tons per month of new steel rails until order
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be laid on the Indianapolis division.
Should the c., H. e. D. -Vandaiia deal fail to
materalize it is quite evident that the Pennsyl-
vanis Company, before il again boy colts the Van
dalia road, will take second thought.
As a straw it is noted that President McKeen. of
the Vandala, has autographed his private secre-
tary Geo. Harrington who is now in Colorado
for his health, to return early as possible
The L.. N. A. & c. is working east bound
business in connection with the l.. B. & w. One
dav this week the former turned over to the l.,
B. e. W., at Charlottesville, sixteen car loads of
tobacco shipped from kentucky for the Eastern
market
The local passenger agents held meeting,
yesterday, for the purpose of fixing upon rates
to the sharp-shooters and their friends who wish
to attend the contest in Chicago the 10Th.
goth and 2lst of this month Owing to petty
jealousies, nothing definite was done in the mat
ter.
The Terre Hau.e Gazette says the fact that
the c., III. 81 ID. people want the Vandalia is
nothing remarkable, as 1t Is regarded all over as
a valuable piece of railroad property, and its
earning capacity has long been matter of
favorable comment in business and railway
circles
equipments which the Bee-line proposed to place
on the through trains with the taking effect of
the summer time tablet Now is the opportune
time for the Bee-line to catch with the travel
ing public, while the fight against the Pennsyl-
vania road Is on.
The Louisville. New Orleans & Texas road
has contracted with the Missouri car works to
build 500 cars, $50 of them box cars, equipped
with the Wagner door, and 40, 900 pounds capac-
ity. The box cars 10 be built at the Cam
brige City car works, which are operated by the
Missouri Car works Company.
General Manager Noonan OF the b. g. o.
Kankakee dispatch. has made the following ap-
pointments: w w Bromley. travelling agent
with headquarters at Chicago to have the
Northwestern territory; A. W. Wadsworth
travelling agent. with headquarters at Moline
ILL.,, his territory to cover Iowa and Nebraska
The novel mileage freight-rata scale adopted
by the Pennsylvania Company west of Pitts
burg, on the taking effect of the law, is said
to be working very satisfactorily. 1t is very
democratic in its character treating all stations
alike, making the rate the same for a given dis
lance, regardless of initial point or destination
The Chicago 81 Eastern Illinois road will this
week receive from the Hinckley locomotive
works four of the nine passenger ana
freight engines the company recently contracted
for. AS yet this road has not suffered in its
coal traffic by the building OF the Chicago 81
Indiana Coal road which parallels the Chicago
e. Eastern Illinois.
The business men of Evansville are much
elated over the prospects that ut early day
they TO have new and shorter route to
New Orleans The route will be via the Ohio
Valley railway. thence 10 jackson, Tenn,
thence by series OF links in a through line
partly constructed to Mississippi City, the
Gulf of Mexico, about midway between Mobile
and Now Orleans.
The local tariff of the Lake Erie s. Western
road, especially Oh the old l. p. s. 9. division,